P. P. Ramachandran is a

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam wa ...

poet.

Works

His poems are collected in two books, ''Kanekkane'' (Thrissur: Current Books) and ''Rantay Murichathu'' (Cut into Two) (Thrissur: Current Books).

Awards

His collection ''Kanekkane'' won the

Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry is an award given every year by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (Kerala Literary Academy) to Malayalam writers for writing poetry of literary merit. It is one of the twelve categories of the Kerala Sahitya A ...

in the year 2003. ''Katte Kadale'' won the P. Kunhiraman Nair Poetry Award in 2013. He received the Cherusseri Award in 2014. He has also received awards established in memory of V. D. Kumaran,

Cherukad Cherukad Govinda Pisharodi (26 August 1914 – 28 October 1976), commonly known as Cherukad, was a Malayalam-language playwright, novelist, poet and political activist, associated with the Communist movement in Kerala state, India. Biograp ...

, Kunjupillai,

Changampuzha Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (Malayalam: ചങ്ങമ്പുഴ കൃഷ്ണപിള്ള; 10 October 1911 – 17 June 1948) was a celebrated Malayalam poet from Kerala, India, known for his elegy ''Ramanan'' (Malayalam: രമണന ...

and V. K. Unnikrishnan.

Background

He is a high school teacher in A.V.High School,

Ponnani Ponnani () is a municipality in Ponnani Taluk, Malappuram District, in the state of Kerala, India. It serves as the administrative center of the Taluk and Block Panchayat of the same name. It is situated at the estuary of Bharatappuzha (Ri ...

. He lives in

Vattamkulam Vattamkulam is a village in Malappuram district of the Indian state of Kerala. Vattamkulam means "Round Pond". Geography Vattamkulam is located near Edappal. A village in the fertile valley of the Bharatapuzha/Nila River. Sukapuram is a near ...

, a small town in

Malappuram Malappuram (also Malapuram) () is a city in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of including the surrounding suburban areas. The first municipality in the district formed in 1970, Malappuram serves as the administrative headquarte ...

district.

References

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Poetry from the Romantic Period to the Present Day
Poets from Kerala People from Malappuram Living people 1962 births Malayalam-language writers Malayalam poets 20th-century Indian poets Indian schoolteachers {{India-writer-stub